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1721 - 1801 (80 years)| Name | Thomas SINGLETON [2] | |
| Birth | 1721 | England  [1] |
| Gender | Male | |
| Birth | VA |
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| Death | 1798 | Charleston, South Carolina [1] |
| HIST | THOMAS SINGLETON-WILL SUMMARY (ACTUAL WILL IS TWO PARAGRAPHS DOWN) THOMAS SINGLETON NAMES HIMSELF AS A NATIVE OF VIRGINIA IN HIS WILL MADE JUNE 19TH 1783. PROVED MAY 19TH 1801. HE DIED OCTOBER 23RD, 1798. IN HIS WILL HE MENTIONS WIFE MARY, SON JOHN, SON RIPLEY, DAUGHTER SUSANNAH, WIFE OF CAPTAIN SAMUEL WELLS, SON BRACEY, THOMAS D. SINGLETON, HIS GRAND SON, SON OF BRACEY SINGLETON. GRAND SONS, CHARLES AND THOMAS STROTHER SONS OF HIS DAUGHTER DOROTHY, WIFE OF WILLIAM STROTHER, WITNESS, MICHAEL RUDOLPH, JOHN TODD AND BENJAMIN HICKS. PROBATE COURT, CHARLESTON COUNTY BOOK 1793-1800 PAGE 561. THIS WAS THE GRAND FATHER OF WILLIAM GILMORE SIMMES THE WRITER. HIS GRAND DAUGHTER HARRIET SINGLETON MARRIED MAY 31ST 1804 THE ELDER WILLIAM GILMORE SIMMES. WILLIAM STROTHER WAS A SON OF CHARLES STROTHER, ONE OF THE TWO STROTHER MEN WHO CAME TO SOUTH CAROLINA FROM CULPEPPER VA. CHARLES SETTLING IN CHARLESTON AND JEREMIAH SETTLING ON THE SALUDA RIVER IN EDGEFIELD SOUTH CAROLINA. BOTH HAD SONS NAMED WILLIAM. THE EDGEFIELD WILLIAM MARRIED JOYCE SHEPARD. THOMAS SINGLETON SR WASATOBACCO PLANTER AND ISSUED MANY PAMPHLETS ON ITS CULTURE. ** CHARLES TOWN SOUTH CAROLINA THE 19TH JUNE 1783. IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN, I THOMAS SINGLETON BEING IN PERFECT HEALTH, MIND AND MEMORY AND KNOWING THAT ALL MANKIND ARE SUBJECT TO DEATH AT ANY TIME WHEN PLEASETH GOD, TO CALL FOR US, WHITHER BEING ASURED, THAT WE ARE PREPARED FOR THE TASK OR NOT WHICH DEPENDS ON OUR FORMER CONDUCT, AND IHAVING SOME SMALL PROPERTY WHICH GOD HATH BEEN PLEASED TO INVEST ME WITH I DO NOMINATE, CONSTITUTE, MAKE AND ORDAIN THIS MY LAST WILL AND TESTIMATE, IN A---- MANNER AND DESIRE THAT MY WORLDLY AFFAIRS MAY BE SETTLED AFTER MY DEATH IN THE FOLLOWING MANNER, TO WIT. ITEM IT IS MY DESIRE, THAT EVERY JUST AND LAWFUL, DEBT THAT I OWE MAY BE PAID, AGREEABLE TO THE CUSTOMARY LAWS OF MY COUNTRY. ITEM I LEAVE UNTO MARY SINGLETON WHOM BY MARTRIMONY IS MY LAWFULL WIFE, TWENTY POUNDS STERLING ON CONDITION SHE SHALL...............................ALL BLANK. ITEM I GIVE UNTO MY SON, JOHN SINGLETON, MY FAITHFUL NEGRO BOY CATO, TO BE DISPOSED OF, AS HE, MY SON JOHN SHALL SEE CAUSE TO DO, AT THE SAME TIME WOULD WISH HIM TO BE KINDLY TREATED AND KEPT IN MEMORY OF ME. ITEM I GIVE UNTO MY SON RIPLEY SINGLETON MY NEGRO MAN WILL WHICH HE NOW HAS IN HIS POSSESSION TO BE DISPOSED OF AS HE MAY SEE CAUSE. ITEM ILEND UNTO MY DAUGHTER SUSANAH WELLS THE USE OF MY NEGRO WOMAN SARAH DURING MY DAUGHTERS LIFE AND AFTER HER DEATH I GIVE THE SAID NEGRO WOMAN SARAH TOGETHER WITH HER INCREASE IF ANY THERE SHOULD BE UNTO THE LAWFUL HEIRS OF MY DAUGHTERS BODY. BUT SHOULD SHE DIE WITHOUT SUCH HEIRS I IN THAT CASE LEAVE THE DISPOSAL OF THE SAID NEGRO WOMAN AND HER INCREASE IF ANY, THERE SHOULD BE TO MY DAUGHTER ALONE TO SELL GIVE OR DISPOSE OF AT HER OWN PLEASURE. ITEM I GIVE AND BEQUEATH UNTO MY TWO SONS, VIRT (VIZ?), BRACY SINGLETON, AND RIPLEY SINGLETON THAT TRACT OF LAND IN ST GEORGES PARISH DORCESTER CONTAINING BY THE PLOT ONE THOUSAND ACRES OR UPWARDS TO BE EQUALLY DIVIDED BETWEEN THEM BY IMPARTIAL PERSONS AS THEY THEMSELVES SHALL CHOOSE, THAT IS TO SAY EACH CHOOSE ONE, AND WHEN DIVIDED THE TWO BROTHERS, TO THROW THE DIE, FOR CHOICE, THE HIGHEST IN SIGHT, THE FIRST THREE THROWS EACH THE SAID LAND I LEAVE TO THEIR OWN DISPOSAL AS THEY MAY SEE CAUSE TO THEM AND THEIR HEIRS. ITEM IT IS MY DESIRE THAT TWO TRACTS OF LAND VIA ONE ON BIG LYNCHES CREEK KNOWN BY THE NAME OF FORTINBUNIS TRACT CONTAINING THREE HUNDRED ACRES AND UPWARDS, ALSO ONE TRACT ON LITTLE LYNCHES CREEK OR THE WATERS THEREOF CONTAINING THREE HUNDRED ACRES AND UPWARDS THE WORKS OF BOTH TRACTS NOW IN THE HANDS OF MR DAVID REYNOLDS WHOM SURVEYED THEM, I SAY THAT IS MY DESIRE, THAT THE ABOVE TWO TRACTS OF LAND MAY BE RAN INTO A GRANT AT THE EXPENSE OF MY ESTATE BEFORE ANY DIVISION OF THE SAME, AND THAT AFTER DONE MY SON JOHN SINGLETON MAY HAVE HIS CHOICE OF THE TWO TRACTS AND IN FAILURE OF THE SAME, THAT IS TO SAY, SHOULD ANYTHING SO HAPPEN THAT THE SAID LANDS ARE NOT SO SECURED IN MANNER THAT HE MAY OBTAIN AND ENJOYALEGAL TITLE TO ONE OR THE OTHER OF THE AFORESAID TRACTS OF LAND SHOULD THAT BE THE CASE, IT IS MY DESIRE THAT THE SUM OF FIFTY POUNDS STERLING MAY BE PAID UNTO MY SON JOHN SINGLETON IN LIEU OF THE AFORE MENTIONED TRACT OF LAND OUT OF MY ESTATE WITHIN ONE YEAR AFTER MY DECEASE EXCLUSIVE OF HIS EQUAL PART OF MY ESTATE AFTER THE PAYMENTS OF MY DEBTS. ITEM IT IS MY DESIRE THAT AFTER MY DEATH THAT MY THREE FOURTHS OF THE LOT AND HOUSE ON BROADSTREET #45 MAY BE SOLD AT PUBLIC VENDUE OR AUCTION ONE FOURTH THE MONEY ARISING FROM THE SALE THEREOF TO BE PAID DOWN IN HAND IN ORDER TO PAY MY DEBTS AND THE REMAINDER TO BE PAID WITHIN EIGHTEEN MONTHS AFTER THE SALE THEREOF THE PURCHASER GIVING SUCH SECURITY FOR THE PAYMENT THEREOF WITH INTEREST FROM THE DATE AS SHALL BE APPROVED OF BY MY HEIRS AND EXECUTORS ALSO MY NEGRO WOMAN TENOR AND MY HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE TO BE SOLD ON THE ABOVE MENTIONED TERMS AND THE MONEY ARISING FROM THE AFORESAID SALES AFTER MY DEBTS ARE PAID TO BE EQUALLY DIVIDED BETWEEN MY THREE SONS AND DAUGHTER, THAT IS TO SAY BRACY SINGLETON, RIPLEY SINGLETON, JOHN SINGLETON, AND MY DAUGHTER SUSANAH WELLS. ITEM IT IS MY DESIRE THAT WHATEVER MONIES MAY BE COLLECTED WHICH MAY BE DUE TO ME BY THE PUBLIK OR PRIVATE PERSONS OR BY ALL PERSONS OR PERSON WHAT SO EVER MAY BE COLLECTED AS SOON AS POSSIBLE AND THE SAME BE EQUALLY DIVIDED BETWEEN MY THREE SONS AND DAUGHTER, THAT IS TO SAY BRACY SINGLETON, RIPLEY SINGLETON, JOHN SINGLETON AND SUSANAH WELLS, WITH THIS RESERVE THAT THAT PART COMING UNTO MY DAUGHTER SUSANAH WELLS IS BY NO MEANS TO BE AT THE DISPOSAL OF HER HUSBAND CAPTAIN SAMUEL WELLS BUT TO BE LET AT INTEREST FOR THE SUPPORT OF MRS WELLS AND HER CHILDREN WHICH ARE TO COME OR TO BE BUT NOW INVISIBLE BUT IN CASE MY DAUGHTER SHOULD DIE WITHOUT ISSUE THEN IT IS MY DESIRE THAT CAPT SAMUEL WELLS MAY RECIEVE AND ENJOY THE ONE HALF OF WHATEVER MONIES MAY BE MRS WELLS'S EQUAL PART AND THE OTHER HALF TO BE EQUALLY DIVIDED BETWEEN MY THREE GRANDSONS VIA THOMAS D. SINGLETON, SON OF BRACY SINGLETON, CHARLES STROTHER AND THOMAS SINGLETON STROTHER SONS OF WILLIAM STROTHER WHOM HAD THESE TWO CHILDREN BY MY DAUGHTER DORITHY, HIS WIFE. ITEM IT IS MY DESIRE THAT AFTER THE TWO AFORE MENTIONED TRACTS OF LAND ARE RAN INTO A GRANT THAT MY GRAND SON THOMAS D. SINGLETON, SON OF BRACY SINGLETON MAY HAVE THE ONE TRACT THAT MY SON JOHN SINGLETON SHOULD REFUSE TAKING THAT IS TO SAY JOHN TO TAKE CHOICE OF THE TWO TRACTS. ITEM IT IS MY DESIRE THAT THE CHILD, MY NEGRO WOMAN NANNEY IS NOW BIG WITH, MAY BE FREE AT THE AGE OF 25 YEARS. AND IF A BOY IT IS MY DESIRE THAT MY SON RIPLEY SINGLETON MAY TAKE CHARGE OF HIM AS SOON AS FIT TO LEAVE THE MOTHER AND TEACH HIM HIS TRADE OR CAUSE IT TO BE DONE AND GIVE HIM A LITTLE EDUCATION, AND KEEP HIM AS A SERVANT OR SLAVE UNTIL HE ARRIVES TO THE YEARS OF TWENTY FIVE THEN TO BE SET FREE AND IF A GIRL IT IS MY DESIRE THAT SON RIPLEYS WIFE MAY TAKE CHARGE OF IT AND TEACH IT IN HER WAY AND AT THE AGE AS ABOVE MENTIONED TO BE SET FREE TOGETHER WITH THE CHILD'S INCREASE IF ANY THERE SHOULD BE AT THE SAME AGE OF TWENTY FIVE YEARS, NOW MY REASONS FOR MY ABOVE REQUEST, ARE AS FOLLOWS VIA THE GENTLEMAN WHOM I SUPPOSE TO BE THE FATHER OF THE CHILD THE WENCH NOW GOES WITH IS AN INTIMATE FRIEND OF MINE AND GIVE ME 15 GUINEAS AT CAMDEN AS A FEE FOR ACTING IN THE MANNER AS ABOVE MENTIONED, HE KNOWING THAT I WAS SENSIBLE OF HIS KEEPING THE WENCH, HIS NAME I AM UNDER PROMISE TO KEEP SECRET. ITEM I GIVE MY NEGRO WOMAN NANNEY UNTO MY GRAND SON THOMAS D. SINGLETON UNDER THOSE CONDITIONS THAT THE CHILD SHE NOW IS BIG WITH BE DISPOSED OF AS ABOVE MENTIONED AND KEPT WITH ITS MOTHER UNTIL IT IS 3 YEARS OLD THEN TO BE TAKEN AWAY AN DISPOSED OF AS I HAVE DIRECTED, ALSO IT IS MY DESIRE THAT THE FIRST CHILD SHE BRINGS AFTER THIS SHE NOW GOES WITH MAY BE GIVEN TO MY SON JOHN SINGLETON AND THE NEXT TO SON RIPLEY SINGLETON AND THE REMAINDER PART OF HER INCREASE IF ANY TO BE THE PROPERTY OF MY GRAND SON TO WHOM I HAVE GIVEN THE WENCH. AND I DO NOMINATE AND APPOINT MY THREE SONS VIA BRACY SINGLETON RIPLEY SINGLETON, AND JOHN SINGLETON TOGETHER WITH MY SON IN LAW CAPTAIN SAMUEL WELLS AS MY EXECUTORS AND FOR THEM TO ACT UNDER THE ADVICE OF COL. C. PINCKNEY, WILLIAM W. GIBBES ESQ. THOMAS SINGLETON WITNESSED AND APPROVED BY | |
| Occupation | Tobacco Planter, formerly of Virginia [3] | |
| _UID | D34733C09435430185A20CBDCA882A3BC19F | |
| Death | 23 Oct 1801 | |
| Person ID | I23040 | Singleton and Related Families |
| Last Modified | 7 Jun 2001 | |
| Father | Richard SINGLETON, of Goose Creek, b. Abt 1680, VA? d. 1 Feb 1734/35, Goose Creek, Berkeley County, South Carolina (Age 55 years) | |
| Mother | Mary Anne/Marianne /DUPONT RICHARDSON, b. 1701, South Carolina d. 1774, South Carolina (Age 73 years) | |
| Marriage | 1721 [4] | |
| _UID | A6D403F27713411381245D71473E4DAA3C5B | |
| _UID | A6D403F27713411381245D71473E4DAA3C5B | |
| Family ID | F5281 | Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family | Mary BLACK | |||||||||||||
| _UID | DFD1C449532B42E5A6E5A770E60EF303EE32 | |||||||||||||
| _UID | DFD1C449532B42E5A6E5A770E60EF303EE32 | |||||||||||||
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| Family ID | F16242 | Group Sheet | Family Chart | ||||||||||||
| Last Modified | 23 Mar 2026 | |||||||||||||
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